Enhancing the Resolution of Seismic Images With a Network Combining CNN and Transformer

The quality of seismic images is often affected by the limitation of acquisition conditions and the interference of noises, which causes the low resolution of seismic images and misleads the following geological interpretation. Although the super-resolution method for seismic images based on convolutional neural network (CNN) has behaved well, the quality of weak events especially deep events is still need to be improved, due to CNN is limited by the receptive fields, which results in weaker ability to perceive relationships among pixels far apart. In this letter, we solve this problem by designing a combination network of CNN and transformer (CNCT). CNCT consists of three parts, edge feature fusion block (EFB), deep feature mining block (DMB), and feature enhancement block (FEB). The EFB aims to fuse the input low-resolution (LR) image and the corresponding edges obtained by the Sobel algorithm and performs preliminary shallow feature extraction. DMB mines deeper features by stacking residual blocks, and each residual block makes full use of its excellent perception of global and local information by combining transformer and CNN. Finally, the FEB uses subpixel convolution for upsampling to expand the size of feature maps. The experimental results on synthetic data and field data show that CNCT not only behaves better on perception effect and texture details than that of other deep learning (DL) methods but also can suppress noise and improve the dominant frequency.